Benchmarking Economic Efficiency : Technical and Allocative Fundamentals

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Conceptual background: firms’ objectives, decision variables and economic efficiency -- Part I -- Chapter 3: Shephard’s input and output distance functions: cost and revenue efficiency decompositions -- Chapter 4: The generalized distance function (GDF): Profitability efficiency decomposition -- Part II -- Chapter 5: The Russell Measures: Economic Inefficiency Decompositions -- Chapter 6: The Weighted Additive Distance Function (WADF): Economic inefficiency decompositions -- Chapter 7: The enhanced Russell graph measure (ERG=SBM): economic inefficiency decompositions -- Chapter 8: The directional distance function (DDF): economic inefficiency decompositions -- Chapter 9: The Hölder distance functions: economic inefficiency decompositions -- Chapter 10: The loss distance function: economic inefficiency decompositions -- Chapter 11: The modified directional distance function (MDDF): economic inefficiency decompositions -- Chapter 12: The reverse directional distance function (RDDF): economic inefficiency decompositions -- Chapter 13: A unifying framework for decomposing economic inefficiency: The general direct approach and the standard and flexible reverse approaches -- Chapter 14: A final overview: economic efficency models and properties -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Author Index.